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Show WON'T DISCUSS SHOOT DEFENSE Attorney Van Colt Is Reticent. Thinks Investigation May Be Finished at This Term of Congress. Refuses to Divulge the Names or Number of Witnesses to Be Called. Waldemar Van Cott of the counsel for the defenso In tho Bmoot Investigation, who arrived homo from Washington Saturday Sat-urday night, Is Inclined to believe that tho investigation will be completed during the presont session of Congress. "It will depend upon the time given to the examination of witnesses after the recess re-cess " said Mr. Van Cott yesterday "Cp to this time about live hours a day have been devoted to the investigation and If this Is continued we should get through Inside of a month It i Senator Burrows' Idea to push the Investigation and we aro disposed to help him all we can." Refuses to Give Names. Attorney Van Cott refused to discuss the line of defense that would be pursued or to gi an estimate of the number of witnesses that would be subpoenaed Hi said that Chief Counsel Worthington had doubtless already handed In the mimes of a part of t hi? witnesses that would bu required, re-quired, but he refused to divulge an of their names When asked his opinion of the manner In which Counsel Taylor had conducted tho case for the prosecution he said that the Senators had treated tho defenso de-fenso very nicely. Returns January 6 Mr Van Cott will leave again for Washington Wash-ington about January 6, to reach there In time- for the reopening of the- hearing on the 10th. He was accompanied on the homeward Journey b F. S Richards J T. Richards. Mr Welby. F. Paulson and F J Fabian and his son, Harold, who Is attending SSle college, Senator Smoot and Representative Howell reached home Sunday. |